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OSTIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

29/30 GIUGNO 2024

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Festival del Cinema Italiano ed Internazionale di Ostia

Ostia International Film Festival (#OIFF) giunto alla VI Edizione promuove, favorisce e divulga ogni attività relativa al mondo del Cinema Italiano ed Internazionale, anche attraverso la TV, lo Streaming, il Teatro, il Web, i Social Media.

Obiettivi:

contribuire, in collaborazione con soggetti Pubblici e Privati, alla promozione ed alla diffusione della Cultura, della produzione Cinematografica ed Artistica ed diffusione delle opere audiovisive che partecipano annualmente al Festival;
organizzare attraverso il Festival, rassegne, manifestazioni, eventi e mostre relative al settore Audiovisivo, Artistico e Culturale in ambito nazionale ed internazionale;
riunire e promuovere la formazione di persone ed artisti di qualsiasi età ed estrazione sociale interessate alla produzione Cinematografica ed Audiovisiva creativa;
realizzare opere collegate al mondo del Cinema, dell’Arte, della Fotografia e della Cultura in generale.

Ostia International Film Festival (#OIFF), now in its VI Edition, promotes, encourages and spreads all the activities relating to the world of Cinema, including through TV, Streaming, Theatre, the Web, Social Media.

Purposes:

in collaboration with public and private entities, the promotion and spreading of culture, cinematographic and artistic production and of the audiovisual works submitted every year to the Festival;
organize happenings, shows, events and exhibitions related to the Audiovisual, Artistic and Cultural sector at national and international level through the Festival;
bring together and promote the training of people and artists of any age and social background involved in creative film and audiovisual production;
create works connected to the world of Cinema, Art, Photography and Culture in general.

OIFF 2023 WINNERS

Pls welcome the

OSTIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023

ANIMATED MOVIES WINNER

PIGSY

TAIWAN

LI WEI CHIU

Director

Pigsy is a street-smart loser who often messes things up. One day, he is chosen to enter the new world, to become a symbol of success. He can finally make grandma proud. Soon after, though, it turns out to be a mistake.
Pigsy does not want to be treated as a joke anymore. He makes a secret deal with Bull Demon King. He stays in Sanzang’s group, and gives the information to Bull Demon King who wants to achieve eternal life. In exchange for information Bull Demon King promises to show him a secret passage to the new world.
As Pigsy completes his tasks, he discovers that Bull Demon King will take many people’s lives in order to achieve immortality. Even his grandma is in danger.
He must do everything in his power to stop this together with his partners. He must save Sanzang, grandma, and everyone else.

SHORT MOVIES WINNER

LA 13EME HEURE

FRANCE

Xavier Tesson

Director

Anna is in a toxic relationship. She wanders the streets of Rouen in search of a solution to free herself from it. But is she even capable of it?

DOCUMENTARIES WINNER

LUCY

ITALY-BRAZIL

Roberto Pili

Director

"LUCY - A pioneer's destiny" retraces the sporting life and personal vicissitudes of the champion Maria Lucia Alves Feitosa "LUCY", the pioneer of women's football in Brazil, the first green-gold woman to have played in Italy and Europe and at first experimental FIFA Women's World Championship in 1988.
The docufilm is a story that unfolds through the stages of Lucy Alves' life, ranging from childhood to full football and Donna maturity. It is a compelling journey that crosses three different continents, narrating the conquests and revenge in a compelling and emotional way, going beyond prejudices and stereotypes, addressing current issues such as inclusion, discrimination and social redemption; all this through football, a sport in Brazil that was prohibited for women until the end of the 1970s.
"LUCY - A pioneer's destiny" is a docufilm made in Sardinia. Directed by Roberto Pili – Production by Francesco Pili. Cast: the historic goalkeeper of Milan and the Brazilian national team Nelson Dida, the players of the Italian national football team Antonella Carta and Angela Coda, the former historic Cagliari player and coach Tonino Congiu, the captain of the Brazilian national team and Olympic silver medalist in Athens 2004 Juliana Ribeiro Cabral, the journalist Enrico Pilia, the University Researcher Profesor Silvana Vilodre Goellner, the artist Anna Baches, the writer Luca Fiscariello.
The soundtrack of "LUCY - A pioneer's destiny" is the unreleased song "LUCY" by CALICE CREW, composed by CAL (Carlotta Cecchinato), MC, poet and painter of Venetian origin and by DJ ICEONE (Sebastiano Ruocco), beatmaker and Historic DJ of the Roman Hip Hop/Electronica scene.

FEATURE MOVIES WINNER

CIURE'

ITALY

Gianpiero Pumo

Director

Dura la vita nella Palermo di periferia: Salvo è un giovane padre che per mantenere il figlio si arrabatta tra impieghi di fortuna e faccende criminal-grottesche. Quando la spirale di violenza gli si ritorce contro, si imbatte in Ciurè, una ballerina transgender che va in suo soccorso spalancandogli le porte di un caleidoscopico night club gay dove si esibisce tutte le sere.

ENG
Life in suburban Palermo can be tough: Salvo is a young father who struggles between makeshift jobs and criminal-grotesque affairs to support his son. When the spiral of violence turns against him, he runs into Ciurè, a transgender dancer who helps him, opening doors to a kaleidoscopic gay night club where she performs every night.

BEST ACTRESS

ELISE FORNEAU

BEST DIRECTOR

GIANPIERO PUMO

ITA

Regista, attore e sceneggiatore palermitano classe ’79, si forma artisticamente tra Roma e New York. Ha recitato in numerose produzioni di fiction e film nazionali e internazionali come Squadra Antimafia, Suburra, La Belva, House of Gucci. Nel 2013 scrive il suo primo testo per il teatro Il pretesto che viene pubblicato da Di Mauro Editore. Ne seguono altri due, Un bacio dai tuoi papà e La belva giudea che nel 2019 gli vale il Premio Giuliano Gemma come migliore attore in una performance teatrale. Debutta alla regia con la sua opera prima Ciurè. Attualmente sta lavorando alla scrittura del suo prossimo lungometraggio.

ENG
Born in Palermo in 1979, he is a director, actor and screenwriter. He rounded out his artistic background between Rome and New York. He acted in numerous national and international fiction and film productions such as Squadra Antimafia, Suburra: Blood on Rome, The Beast, House of Gucci. In 2013 he wrote his dramatic text Il pretesto which was published by Di Mauro Editore. Two others followed, Un bacio dai tuoi papà and La belva giudea which in 2019 won the Giuliano Gemma Award for best actor in a theatrical performance. He made his directorial debut with his first feature Ciurè. He is currently working on his next feature film.

BEST ACTOR

GIANPIERO PUMO

ITA
Regista, attore e sceneggiatore palermitano classe ’79, si forma artisticamente tra Roma e New York. Ha recitato in numerose produzioni di fiction e film nazionali e internazionali come Squadra Antimafia, Suburra, La Belva, House of Gucci. Nel 2013 scrive il suo primo testo per il teatro Il pretesto che viene pubblicato da Di Mauro Editore. Ne seguono altri due, Un bacio dai tuoi papà e La belva giudea che nel 2019 gli vale il Premio Giuliano Gemma come migliore attore in una performance teatrale. Debutta alla regia con la sua opera prima Ciurè. Attualmente sta lavorando alla scrittura del suo prossimo lungometraggio.

ENG
Born in Palermo in 1979, he is a director, actor and screenwriter. He rounded out his artistic background between Rome and New York. He acted in numerous national and international fiction and film productions such as Squadra Antimafia, Suburra: Blood on Rome, The Beast, House of Gucci. In 2013 he wrote his dramatic text Il pretesto which was published by Di Mauro Editore. Two others followed, Un bacio dai tuoi papà and La belva giudea which in 2019 won the Giuliano Gemma Award for best actor in a theatrical performance. He made his directorial debut with his first feature Ciurè. He is currently working on his next feature film.

OIFF 2023

SELECTED SUBMISSIONS

(Alphabetical Order)

Project Titles:

17 Days of November

1768 Giorni

40th

48 Ore prima

7 Hours

A kind of Tony

A lullaby for yellow roses

A message for Christmas

A Ray of Sunshine

A silence that makes sound

Al di là del mare

All Quiet on the Digital Front

Alma

Anaklia

Anomaly

Arazul

Archetypal shadow

Arianna

Ashmara e l' Ombra

Behave

Benson la vita è il nemico

Benvenuta al Nord

Beyond the Sea

Billy the kid Pilot Episode

Bitter Silence

Black Pen

Blu

Boboda

Breaking the waves

Broken Soul - The New World

Bubbles

Bulimia Di Followers

Call Sign Valhalla

Cardoña photos: 7 pesetas

Che bell'andè

Chlorine

Christmas isn't like a movie

Ciao, ti cercavo

Ciurè

Conscience

Crazy time

Crossing the color line - healing from the past

Ctrl+Z

Cuckoo's Den

Cypress Sleep

Dark Compost

Darkness this is my revenge

Death Anniversary

Deep Astronomy and the Romantic Sciences

Diario del pipistrello

Dignity

DitO

Dot

Elia solo Elia

Elsewhere

Emozioni dietro il palco

Era Destino

Eraldo Affinati, writer and teacher

Every Three Days

Everybody wants to be loved

Father's Footsteps

Fatima

Feeling the Beat!

Ferretti brothers vs Real Madrid

Fighting the Rare

Follia

For child never born

For The Sake Of Ava

Fragile Reflections

Game, Interrupted

Giti jan

Giulietta e Romeo?

Gli Appuntamenti

Glimpse of My Soul

Good bye Paris

Grogh. Story of a beaver

Handwritten

Have a good trip

Have a nice weekend

Hawaian Pizza

Helianthus Annuus

hhhvhvh

How Many Miles?

How to become a rapist in 6 steps

ID101 A witch tale

Il buddismo giapponese

Il cigno

Il Club

Il Cuore non ha confini

Il Duello

Il Signor Pietro

In Search of Dad One Night

Insight

Interno 5

Io, Tevere - Le radici del mare

irene 6

It was Veneto

It's Too late

Itu Ninu

Joan Bennàssar - Human Reasons

Kanne kalaimaane ( Apple Of My Eye My Dearest )

Keep everything

Kharkiv Music Fest Did Happen

Kiran

Knife, Chocolate

La Lixeira- la dignità degli invisibili

La perfezione

La Prima Volta - istruzioni per l'uso

La voix des autres

L'Acqua di San Giovanni

Lagunaria

Land of Upright People

Le cose rotte

Le Notti di Maya

Le Ragazze non Piangono

Lemons

L'espulsore

Let Me

Lì dove è stata perduta

Life Collectors

Life in Disguise

Locked up, nightmare in times of pandemic, war and emigration

Long Time No See

Lucy - A pioneer destiny

L'ultimo saluto

L'uomo delle riunioni - The man at that meetings

Mad & Breakfast

Mangata

Massimo

Medea

Memori

Menomale

Midnight Ride

Mnemosyne

My Partner Giraffe

Natale in casa varriale

Neve

Neve Rossa

New Life

Norcia: the earthquake

Nulla è, Nulla sia

On The Horizon Line

Once upon a February

One Heart Two Colors

Out Loud

Outcast

Outside Francisque

Panni Sporchi

Peripheric Love

Pestis Muliebris - Stories of Female Resilience

Pier Paolo dead and risen

Pigsy

Pina

Pizza Panic

Pocho

Polvere sul Tevere

Ponte Milvio

Providence

Psychicken

Quiet

Ram

Raven

re-record

Roman

Samira

Scissors

Scomparire

Secrets of marguerites

Selfie

Shakespeare in Love

Siblings

Sight

Silenced

Singing in Front of the Colosseo

SIR

Six Days Of Life

Sleep/Talk

So does the silence

Somewhere to Stay

Sonne/Neve let me go!

Sospeso

Stanza 5

Steps

Story of a lunch break

Such Hard a Thing as Sex

Survivor

Switch

Tender Grain

The 13th hour

The Baton

The Beginning

The Bekova Sisters - A Journey For Freedom

The Berta Cloud legend

The Betrayal

The Blue Rose

The Breath of The Devil

The Chaos Daughter

The Character

The Creature

the Dance of the bugs

The Dog

The family portrait

The Fisherman

The flight of the dragonflies

The Founder Effect

The Hundred Years’ Binge/Our Current Predicament

The Imperceptible

The Last Cowboy: Revisited

The last party

The Librarian

The Mesaure of a man

The Molecules of Destiny

The Origami Girl

The Passion of Mahmoud

The Prisoner

The Recession

The sirens

The space on the Earth

The Upland Sergeant, Mario Rigoni Stern's Story

The Visit

The Whisper of the Wood

The Wing Girl

The Winner

This Is Not a Film

This is not Norway

Three Brigands

Tik Tok Star

Tomorrow Girl

Trentatré

Tu quoque

Two Knights

Ujan Story

Un giardino in sogno

Una Risata ci salverà

Un'Ultima Volta

Valery Alexanderplatz

Vase

Verticalman- storia di un uomo verticale

Via Don Minzoni n. 6

Violator

Vorrei Andare Via

Warpigs

WavesWaterWall

We already know

Whatever The Fuck You Want

Whenever I'm Alone With You

Where dragnet ropes lay spread out

Wrongful Death

Years Fall Later

you and me

Yvette

Zauberwege - Verso la musica

Zhakaw

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